के २०४६ मा गणतान्त्रिक क्रान्ति सम्भव थियो ? मेरो उत्तर: थियो । - http://www.freenepal.org:8080/FreeNepal/action/discussion.do;jsessionid=8558334079586C0ECBD7F91DE40F6633?currentContentId=24 The movement of 2046 was indeed led to its climax by the common people. The political parties, especially the NC, had hard time catching up with them. The ULF, being graduated with an ideology that has no place for the King, had a natural ardor for "maximum democratic achievement". It was the NC which had never dreamt of a kingless democracy and had essentially kissed goodbye to whatever revolutionary zeal it had for democracy since BP Koirala's submissive policy of "National Reconciliation" with the King, that was on the way for the movement to catch a republican aspiration. Could the movement have taken a republican turn ? I think yes. The crux of 2046 movement - that is - people's spontaneous and explicit opposition to King's power is not about the story of 52 days long agitation. Not at all. It's about 10 years of semi-underground political activities of students (often to the extent of educational anarchy in schools and campuses), school teachers (more effective in towns and villages) and "progressive" civil society to raise the political awareness of the people. This conscious people did the movement and they would have gone to any length. This is not to say that the compromise the political leaders made with the King was a betrayal. The compromise was striked with a genuine sense of victory and people genuinely celebrated a genuine victory indeed. They simply thought that now the political parties have enough power to complete the remaining task of cleaning the country off the old system and start a new one and so they looked forward to a happening future.